Chapter One Hundred-One: To Earth!
Security-robots moved down the hall with siren wailing with scans for rogue robots Jason, Max, Eve and Wall-E's warning image on their display screen.
As one stops in front of a yellow line painted haphazardly on the floor and follows it to a storage closet door he opens the closet and inside, a Paint-robot hides his head in the corner the yellow line leads straight to his rear.
The robot then apprehends him with his Suspension Beam as everything begins to shake as the robot looks around, confused as a jet engine noise builds as he saw it was coming from the hallway trash chute.
Eve, Wall-E, Jason, Max and M-O burst out from it as the paint-bot recognizes Wall-E.
The Security alarm then goes haywire as he takes a snapshot of Eve, holding Wall-E, holding the plant Eve aiming her gun straight at camera.
Seconds later the terrified robot is thrown into the storage closet.
"Please hold. We are currently having technical difficul - !" he said as the door was slammed shut and Eve locks the door on him.
The heroes take off down the hall as the freed Paint-robot gives chase humming Poysc as he follows.
Wall-E, only half-functioning, gets an idea and reaches into his pocket and presses his play button on the tape recorder as Poysc blares through the hallway.
In various hallways Rejects come out of hiding as they hear the music and parade after Eve and Wall-E and hum Poysc.
On screens around the Axiom Eve and Wall-E's wanted image instantly circulates as alarms sound alert screens pop up around the sleeping ship.
"Caution: Rogue Robots...Caution: Rogue Robots..." the computer said as on the Bridge Auto observes the same wanted image.
"That's not possible!" he growled as he raised a screen showing a deck plan of the Axiom as it highlights Eve and Wall-E's location as Auto activates every Security-Cyborg on the Axiom.
On various locations on the Axiom Security-Cyborgs eject from their wall stations and race in the direction of Eve carelessly knock over stray passengers in their way.
"Caution: Rogue Robots..." the computer said.
Back on the Bridge Auto watches the deck plan display monitors the progress of all the security as a camera drops through to the floor down to the Captains Quarters.
The Captain was still trapped and rams his hover chair against the locked elevator door with no effect.
"Mutinyyy...Mute...neee...This is your last chance...Auto...You hear me?...Stupid...wheel robot thing..." he panted
"Caution: Rogue Robots...Caution: Rogue Robots..." the computer said as a flashing light catches his attention outside his window as he looks up on the sky dome and a giant wanted image of Eve and Wall-E, holding the plant.
"The plant!" the Captain said as his eyes light up and glances down at the open manual on the floor.
"Plant icon + Holo-detector icon = Earth!" he said filled with renewed determination.
"We'll see who's powerless now!" he said as he lays flat in his chair and floats under his console like a grease monkey and pulls off the underside panel.
"Ah-Ha!" he yelled as he yanks out a bundle of wiring and cross-connects two wires as the console powers up.
In a hall Eve zooms through the hallway with a band of rejects track behind them and Jason and Max running with them.
They reach an intersection when the Captain's face appears on holo-screens all around them.
"Testing, testing... Is this thing on?" he said on an intercom all around the Axiom.
At the Bride Auto watches the Captain on the holo-screen and furiously tries to shut off the intercom.
"Psssst! Hey! Hey! This is the Captain I'm locked in my room. Eve, Wall-E, bring the plant to the Lido Deck. I'll have activated the holo-detector. Now hurry! Auto's probably going to cut me off –" he said as the screens all went dead.
Eve and Wall-E look at each other with determination they're about to continue on when an army of Security-Drones block their path.
"Halt!" they said dozens of them stand in a row as Eve fires her gun and destroys a robots as another one quickly takes its place and traps her arm with its suspension beam so she can't shoot.
The robots advance, when suddenly the Rejects charge the security the Beautician-robot deflects rays with her mirrors and the Vacu-robot sneezes dust in their faces.
The Defib-Robots shocks them with her paddles, Umbrella-Robot opens up his umbrella and shields the others from the attack.
From behind the umbrella a weak Wall-E activates his welding beam and shorts out the Massage-Robot energy straightjacket once free he goes berserk and leaps at the entire army of robots.
Robot parts fly everywhere Eve and Wall-E can't watch the carnage.
"My god!" Jason said watching the horror with Max.
"I see why he was defective he can break someone spine!" Max said.
Back at the Captain Quarters he sets Eve's Cylindrical Device on the floor behind him as it projects her stored memories.
Up on the Bridge Auto watches Security blips disappear from his screen.
"What the heck is taking them out so fast?" he said as a message screen pops up to show the Captain holding the plant.
"Ha, ha! Look what I got, Auto!" he said.
Auto's single eye irises wide "That's not possible!"
"That's right! The plant! Oh, you want it? Come and get it, Blinky!" the Captain said.
"No!" Auto growled.
Down below the Captain hovers in front of Eve's memory screen as it projects a still image of Wall-E holding the plant as the Captain blocks the camera's view of Wall-E and pretends to be holding the projected plant himself.
"Ha ha!" he said as he hears Auto coming and turns off the vid-com and yanks his bundle of wires out of the wall making the room go dark.
On the celling an aperture opens as Auto lowers into the dark and touches the ground as he cautiously searches the empty room.
"Captain? Captain...?" he said as he looks across the portraits of other captains from past to the present Captain, then eyes in the portrait of the current Captain and noticed it was trembling.
"Wait a minute!" he said activating his Taser as the Captain lunges at him and grabs Auto and hangs onto him.
"Let go! I said let go of me!" Auto yelled,
Auto panics then zips back up through the hole in the ceiling as the Captain gets stuck between floors.
"What too heavy for ya, huh!" the Captain said as Auto tries to pull free but the Captain won't let go.
Auto then ends up yanking him through and the Captain rides Auto like a bull as Auto swings violently back and forth.
"You're not getting away from me, one-eye! - OOF! - Is that all you got!" he yelled.
Gopher then drops out of his pneumatic tube and sees the Captain fighting Auto and charges at the Captain who kicks him straight out the window and towards the Lido Deck where Gopher plummets as his shadow grows over the pool and he smashes in a heap on the cement.
Wall-E and Eve look over the smoking wreckage of the security-cyborgs as the Massage-robot floats above it all and pants like a wild beast.
One security still twitches as the Massage-robots crushes him with one blow.
Eve then grabs Wall-E and the plant and the takes off for the Concourse Level as M-O and the Rejects follow behind.
"Eve! Max and I are going to help the captain! Get that planet Lido Deck!" Jason said.
"Affirmative!" Eve said as Jason and Max headed down one hall to where the they remember was the elevator was to the Captain quarters.
On the Bridge the Captain and Auto still fought as he reached for a button.
"That's it!...A little closer! Must..press...button" he said as he reaches his one free hand out for the Holo-Detector button.
"Gotcha! Ha ha!" he said as his hand slams down hard on it.
On parts of the ship floodlights kick on everywhere, the Lido Deck Pools automatically cover up, stray passengers pause to take in the alarms as Space-Life Preservers burst from their hover chairs and inflate around their necks as green lines appear on the floors as sleeping passengers are involuntarily led out of their cabins.
Every hover chair follows the illuminated lines as the procedure is completely automated and the passengers were all confused helpless to stop it.
On the Lido Deck the passengers glide in by the thousands and form concentric circles over the closed-up pools and fill the multi-storied balconies on all sides.
John and Mary arrive together at the Lido Deck as Mary notices a group of toddlers scared and crying as a Nanny-Cyborg tries vainly to placate them.
"Remain calm. Remain calm" she said.
Close on the Bridge Plaza the BNL Logo on the floor rotates as a large cylindrical device rises from the stage and the ship's Holo-Detector.
Jumbotrons activate on the dome and shows the bridge as everyone can see the Captain wrestling Auto as he tries to speak to them during the fight:
"Ladies and Gentlemen! This is your Captain speaking! We're having a slight malfunction with the Autopilot! Please remain calm!" he yelled.
The passengers get caught up in the conflict treat it as if it were a televised fight.
On the Rea Deck Eve and Wall-E fly out of the transport tunnel and make a beeline for the holo-detector that was ready and waiting for the plant.
"Almost there!" Eve said.
Back on the Bridge Auto grew furious "Enough!" he yelled as he furiously spins his wheel throws the Captain to the floor as the entire ship lists dangerously to one side.
Eve and Wall-E slam into the holo-detector's side as Wall-E drops the plant and it tumbles off the bridge plaza.
Eve is forced to set Wall-E down as he clings to the holo-detector and she flies off to retrieve the plant.
The hover chairs stay locked on their lines as the passengers all slip off their chairs their uniform color defaults back to red as they slowly slide across the deck.
And for the first time all of humanity reaches out to one another.
Everyone piles up on the listing side as the plant is buried underneath the mass of humanity as Eve searches desperately amongst them.
John and Mary hang together off their chairs as crying toddlers just above them got their attention as the kiddies slip out of their hover rings as Mary gasps in horror.
"John, get ready to have some kids!" she yelled as they purposefully let go of their chairs and grab hands, forming a human chain and catch the toddlers as they all slide together down the Lido Deck as the toddlers giggle the whole way down as they landed at the bottom, next to Eve.
An empty monorail car tips off the upper deck lands on the pool level as it begins sliding down the Lido Deck and smashes vacant hover chairs in its wake as Mary gasps.
"LOOK OUT!" Mary yelled
Eve looks then up to sees the monorail sliding towards them as she stops the car before it hits and begins to struggle trying to hold it up.
On the Bridge Auto keeps the ship tilted and glides over to the Holo-Detector Button and switches it off.
On Lido Deckthe holo-detector begins to lower back into the floor while Wall-E was is still hanging onto it.
Barely functioning he uses all his strength and wedges himself under the upper lip of the detector and stops it from disappearing into the floor Wall'-E grunted as he tried to keep his arms up on holding the top up and his feet at the bottom to push more strength in.
On the Bridge the holo-detector button buzzes and flashes.
"Something's wrong" Auto said as he calls up a Lido Deck Security Camera View and discovers Wall-E wedged in the device holding it up.
"No!" Auto said as he presses down on the "off" button.
The holo-detector's hydraulics fight against him as Wall-E desperately fights to hold it up as he began to stand straight push the holo-detector back up.
The Captain watches Wall-E's heroic rise on screen as Auto flips out his taser and then jams it into the "off" button causing a short circuits it.
"NO!" the Captain yelled as the holo-detector reverses full force and crushes Wall-E as Jason and Max ran into the scene and saw the sight.
"NO!" Eve scream but can't go to him still trapped, holding up the monorail car above the passengers.
Back on the Bridge the Captain watches Wall-E being crushed.
"Wall-E!" Jason screamed as Auto turned to them.
(A.N. Battle Theme Vim and Vigor should be played now.)
"Hey blink!" Max yelled as Auto turned to see Jason and Max with weapons out.
"Were relieving you of duty!" Jason growled as Auto glowed with darkness, "no way!"
"I don't think so" Auto said as Jason and Max noticed the Captain braces his arms against the floor and rises up on his own two feet.
On the Jumbotron screen the passengers collectively gasp at their Captain is standing and Jason and Max ready to fight Auto as they started to cheer!
"Rah! Ha! Ya! Take this!" Jason yelled making a few hits at Auto.
"Ha! Ya! Rah! Had enough?!" Max yelled making a few strike of his own.
"Ugh! Gah! Ng! AH! Enough!" Auto yelled spinning the wheel as Jason and Max skidding backwards on the ship and hit the wall as Auto came down and jab his Taser as Jason caught it and struggled to push him back.
Jason was then able to hold the taser away then kicked Auto making him spin the ship the other away as they skid to him.
"Max!" Jason yelled taking his hand.
"You ready?" Max asked as he swung Jason into Auto who kicked the helm in the red eye.
"GAH!" Auto growled trying to get his vision back as Jason and Auto came at him again.
"Ha! Rah! Ya! Ha! This is it!" Jason yelled making the final strike.
"Unacceptable!" Auto yelled as the Captain jumped on his back and Jason and Max held him in place as the helm tried to break free and the Captain raises a finger up to the control panel to the "Autopilot and release" button and flicks the switch to "Manual".
The Captain then grits his teeth and speaks, "Auto, you are relieved of duty!" he said pressing the button.
"Noo!" Auto yelled as he ended up getting shut down as Jason and Max moved away and the Captain smiles triumphantly as he grabs the wheel with both hands and makes the ship level again.
On the Lido Deck the passengers all spill across the deck all shaken but ok.
Eve sets the monorail down and rockets over to the holo-detector Wall-E was pinned under the lip of the holo-detector.
Eve tries to lift it up but it wouldn't budge as she looks back to the crowd.
"PLANT! PLANT! Find the Plant!" She yelled as Jason and Max ran to her.
"Someone find the plant!" Jason yelled as he and Max tried to lip the lip off Wall-E.
"Please hurry!" Max yelled.
M-O then begin searching the crowd for the plant as humans begin to stand for the first time all around him as he pulled down his scanner and searched for a trail as he spots the plant mixed in among them.
"FOREIGN CONTAMINANT" flashes on his display screen.
Eve fights to keep the machine from crushing Wall-E further as she grunted.
"Eva!" M-O yelled as he holds the plant up from across the Lido Deck.
The Vacu-robot shoots it into the hands of a passenger as humans and cyborgs form an impromptu fire line and Toss it up to Eve on stage as she shoves the plant into the device as the detector instantly scans the plant.
"Plant origin verified. Course set for Earth" The computer said as slowly, the holo-detector rises as Wall-E topples out from underneath.
He had what looked to be oil leaking and looked beyond broken as Eve gasps in horror.
"WALL-E!" Max yelled.
M-O and the Rejects avert their eyes as the passengers recoil as well.
Wide on the Dome Celling it converts into a giant star chart and rapidly plots a course for Earth.
"Ten seconds to hyperjump" the computer said as Eve lifts Wall-E up in her arms as she saw no sign of life.
"WALL-E!" she cried.
M-O's head drops in despair as passengers witness grief for the first time and begin to have new feelings of their own: sadness, sympathy.
Mary begins to cry and buries her head in John's shoulder.
"Oh no! Wall-E..." she cried
"Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero." The computer said as the ceiling countdown hits 0:00.
The ship jumps to light speed as Jason and Max hold onto what they could as all the passengers and robots are thrown off their feet as everyone holds on to one another.
The Captain struggles to keep control of the steering wheel as below humans and cyborgs hang on for dear life.
John and Mary cling to each other and the babies and Eve holds tightly to Wall-E still calling out his name with no response.
The Axiom zooms through hyperspace while back on Earth
Hal waits obediently on the hill exactly where Wall-E told him to stay as his antennae twitch with boredom.
A red dot then appears on the ground as Hal watches the dot run down the hillside as the ground begins to shake and daylight dims as the insect looks to the sky as a dark patch grows behind the clouds blots out the sunlight.
The Axiom's keel breaks through its shadow swallows up the entire landscape.
The cockroach senses his master's return as hundreds of red dots rush past him as he eagerly chases after them.
On the Axiom the city-size starliner lowers gracefully from the sky and pushes back the clouds to the horizon.
The circle of dots triangulate over the abandoned berth Converge over the port's landing shaft
Thousands of feet deep the ship's keel descends into it as the earth shudders.
Trash towers tumble in the distance then all is quiet.
A row of giant doors open on the side of the ship and multiple gangway automatically extend and connect with built-in terminals on the port.
The Captain walks out gingerly holding the boot with the plant as the other passengers step out on their own legs wobbling like toddlers.
They squint up at the harsh sunlight as a commotion is heard from the back as Eve appears out of the crowd and cradles Wall-E in her arms and takes off.
M-O and the Rejects follow behind Eve as they rush across the gangway and Jason and Max ride on his glider after Eve.
Hal meets up with Eve climbs up onto Wall-E and doesn't understand why his master isn't responding.
Eve urgently scans the landscape then locks on to Wall-E's truck in the distance as she takes to the air.
M-O and the Rejects chase after her down the gangway then across the trash cover land.
"Eva!" M-O yelled.
The Captain respectfully removes his hat "Good luck, friend" he said.
Inside Wall-E Truck the interior is dark and still then suddenly the junk jingles and clinks as the back door opens and Eve flies inside with Wall-E then sets him on the floor as Jason and Max land at the door and rush to help.
She scans the rotating shelves at high speed grabs a mat and lays Wall-E down on it then scans again.
Spare parts were being grabbed by Eve off selves frantically as she pulled apart his shirt and installs the new parts into Wall-E.
Her arms a blur of precision in motion as she replaces his damaged circuit board then closed his chest and for the final piece energy, Eve pulls out her gun and blasts a hole in the ceiling.
Out in the empty bay the rejects stop and see the roof of Wall-E's truck explode.
The sunlight beams down on Wall-E chest as his eyes still remained closed as Eve watches and waits.
"Come on" Jason said praying like Max.
A beep was heard as a part of Wall skin turned into a small rectangle and flipped over to show Wall-E's meter fully charges.
Wall-E opened his eyes then stood up off the ground and stood up straight as Buggy hopped with joy.
A Eve was filled with joy and excitement as she holds out her hand to him.
"Yes!" Jason said.
"Wall-E" she said with much love as Wall-E gives her a blank stare and his eyes looked cloudy instead of fully of curiosity like they were before as he turns away from Eve and walks out the truck.
Eve then grabs him and turns him back around to face her.
"Wall-E! Eve!" she said as Wall-E just stares at her.
"Wall-E it's us" Jason said approaching.
"Don't you recognize us?" Max asked.
'He doesn't seem to know who I am' Eve thought then remembered something.
"Wall-E!" She said as she grabs the Rubiks Cube and light bulb from the shelf and held them before her as the light bulb glowed in her hand as she gives them to Wall-E.
Wall-E had no reaction to them as he looked like a brainwashed zombie.
"Wall-E?" she asked
Wall-E looks blankly at the junk on the shelves then in his hands.
"Oh!" Eve said as she hovered over to the video player then played Hello Dolly as Eve looks back to see if it has any effect.
Wall-E is over at the shelves and has scooped all his prized possessions into the air and crushed them into a cube.
"AHH!" Jason screamed.
"Wall-E! That's your collection!" Max said.
Eve felt like she'd been punched in the gut as Wall-E walks outside and steps on the cockroach on his way out.
The insect pops back to life and watches his friend in shock.
Outside Wall-E walks up to a nearby trash pile and uses magnetic force to scoops up trash into the air and compress it into a cube.
Eve hovers over to him still in disbelief.
"No" she said as Wall-E continues to stack his cubes as she stops him and lifts his head to stares into his eyes to see nobody was home.
Eve presses his play button on his tape recorder but nothing but static as Eve begins to panic and shakes him.
"Wall-E...Wall-E! WALL-E!" she yelled as she got no response.
'He's gone' she thought as she stood in silence next to him for a long time.
"We did lose him" Jason sighed sadly.
Finally, Eve grasps Wall-E's hand and forces his fingers to interlace with hers then holds him close one last time as she leans her head against his and hums softly.
She touches her forehead to his as she got ready to make a painful goodbye.
" Wall-E" she said as she kissed him as they felt a tiny spark between them and as Eve turns to walk away she jerked back.
Eve turns to see her fingers caught between his she checks his eyes again and see nothing but then hears a tiny servo noise.
She then looks down at their hands as Wall-E's fingers start to move slowly close around Eve's.
She looks back at his face Wall-E's eyes gradually come into focus as his brows rise up and down.
"Eve?" Wall-E asked.
"Wall-E!" Eve said.
"He's back!" Max said as Wall-E notices his and Eve hands entwined.
"Eve!" he said as she giggled.
Inside the truck the "Hello Dolly" tape reaches the finale of Iotam.
"And that is all that love's about..." the actors sang while back outside Eve and Wall-E stare into each other's eyes.
M-O and the Rejects finally reach the truck and saw the sight as they begin to celebrate.
"Wall-E'!" a Reject said.
Then M-O realizes they need privacy and turns to the rejects, "go!" he yelled as he herds the Rejects away "Go! Go, go go!"
"...and we'll recall when time runs out..."
"Let's give them a minute Max" Jason said as they walk away.
IIIIII
The Newly planted plant was now in the earth as small hands water it gently as it was surrounded by kids as the Captain instructs them as John and Mary help unload equipment from the Axiom as Cyborg and passengers stream off the ship.
"This is called "farming"! You kids are going to grow all kinds of plants: vegetable plants, pizza plants!" he said laughing "Ahh, it's good to be home..."
IIIII
Wall-E and Eve held each other's hands while M-O and the Rejects were cleaning outside as the singers song finished.
"...To be loved a whole life long."
"Huh?" Jason said seeing the Keyhole in the sky as he spun his keyblade and pointed at it send the beam of light and sealed this world keyhole.
"Jason?" Wall-E said approaching.
"Directive not over Wall-E Max and I need to go" Jason said as Wall-E went back into the truck then came out holding out the empty ring box and the spork to them.
"For us?" Max asked as Wall-E nodded.
"We don't need items to remember you bye. Wall-E, you and Eve are our friends and we'll always remember you, you take care of here" Jason smiled.
"You keep them" Max smiled.
Later the two returned to the lanes between know this world would soon be rebuilt, hopefully one they will return to see someday.
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